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The degree of Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) is a research doctorate in business administration. The D.B.A. requires coursework and research beyond the masters degree that normally results in a dissertation or journal publication that contributes to business theory or practice.
Recognition
The D.B.A. is usually identical to a Ph.D in Business Administration, except that it tends more towards applied research rather than theoretical research. Harvard Business School, Manchester Business School, Boston University School of Management and Maastricht School of Management, among many others, offer the choice of D.B.A. or Ph.D as equally rigorous doctoral programs, the only difference being the applied-research orientation of the DBA programs [1][2][3][4] . The US Department of Education and the National Science Foundation recognize the D.B.A. as equivalent to the Ph.D.[5][6]. In the UK, the Economic and Social Research Council [2] recognises Ph.D and D.B.A. programmes at approved institutions. The European Network of Doctoral Programmes in Business Administrations (EDAMBA) helps participating schools to improve the quality of their programmes and provides a Summer Research Academy to support students from participating schools. Furthermore in Argentina the achieved degree of Doctor in Administration accounts with recognition by the National Commission of University Accreditation[7] which is accepted as much as Latin America, India as in the European Countries.
Contribution
The choice of D.B.A. or Ph.D is always relevant for those considering a doctorate and its contribution. A Ph.D in Business is more suitable for students that want to pursue a career exclusively in academics, while the D.B.A. has been designed for students who might wish to pursue a career in the profession as well[3][6]. A typical D.B.A. program has a dual purpose: (1) to contribute to both theory and practice in relation to business and management; and (2) to develop professional practice and to contribute to professional knowledge.
Structure and Format
Typical entry requirements include M.B.A., MSc, or similar masters degrees, or equivalent qualifications in general management, or in a functional field by examination awarded by a professional body. Some universities also ask for significant experience in a managerial or professional supervisory position involving responsibility for strategic issues. The D.B.A. normally requires a significant thesis, dissertation or final comprehensive project including a formal defense and approval by nominated examiners or an officially sanctioned and qualified doctoral review committee. The degree is conferred when all coursework, testing, and written research are completed and reviewed and approved by the awarding institution.
D.B.A candidates may specialize in areas such as management science, technology management, organizational behavior, economics, or finance or other practical fields. Curricula may be offered on a full-time or part-time basis. According to the European higher education standards set by the Bologna Process, it is stated that the normal duration of a doctorate should correspond to 3–4 years of full time study.
Executive DBA (EDBA) programs are DBA programs that are developed to meet the educational needs of managers and executives, allowing students to earn a DBA while they remain in managerial or consulting roles. Participants may come from every type and size of organization – profit, nonprofit, government — representing a variety of industries. EDBA students typically have a significantly higher level of work experience, compared to other DBA students. [1]
Notable persons with D.B.A. degrees
- Robert F. Bruner – Dean Charles C. Abbott Professor of Business Administration and Distinguished Professor of Business Administration at the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Virginia.
- Clayton M. Christensen - the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.
- Joseph R. D'Cruz - Professor of strategic management at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management
- Bruce Fletcher (http://fletcess.com) Founder and owner of fletcess and Fletchnet
- Late Sumantra Ghosal – Founding Dean of the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, and formerly Robert P. Bauman Chair in Strategic Leadership at the London Business School.
- Christopher Ittner – Ernst & Young Professor of Accounting, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
- Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries - the Raoul de Vitry d'Avaucourt Professor of Leadership Development at INSEAD and director of the INSEAD Global Leadership Centre.
- Late CK Prahalad - the Paul and Ruth McCracken Distinguished University Professor of Corporate Strategy at University of Michigan, Ross School of Business.
- Michael E. Raynor - Canadian management expert and consultant with Deloitte Consulting LLP, the Distinguished Fellow with Deloitte Research.
- Lenos Trigeorgis - Real options pioneer; Professor of finance, University of Cyprus.
- Birger Wernerfelt – J. C. Penney Professor of Management and Chair of PhD Committee, MIT Sloan School of Management.
- Robert B. Wilson – Adams Distinguished Professor of Management, Emeritus, Graduate School of Business, and Professor of Economics (by courtesy), School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University.
- Dave Yeske, Co-Founder[8], Managing Director, Yeske Buie; National President[9] (2003), Financial Planning Association (FPA); Distinguished Adjunct Professor[10], Ageno School of Business, Golden Gate University.
D.B.A. program quality
The responsibility for the overall quality of a D.B.A or other doctoral programs resides within the graduate research degrees committees or their equivalent within the university. As such, D.B.A programs must have a specific set of university regulations and must be subject to appropriate quality approval processes. Regulations should include reference to protocols for treating ethical issues in research, including those involving researchers working within the organisation that employs them and/or having access to privileged information. The implementations as above are widely used in Australian Universities, for instance a D.B.A student cannot embark into research phase before passing all his/her courseworks, research proposal and ethics, upon passing proposal stage, he/she still needs to clear ethics from Ethics Committee. Even after completing the dissertation writing, the D.B.A candidate still needs to go through numerous internal moderations of the dissertation before submitting to external examinations (at least two external examiners). For successful candidates in the external examinations stage, they usually need to revise their dissertations before final approval from the D.B.A committee of granting the degree. The research phase is always a tedious and demanding phase.
Schools offering D.B.A. degrees
Australia
Charles Darwin University
Charles Sturt University- (CSU)
Curtin University of Technology
Deakin University
Macquarie University- Both DBA and PhD Programs offered.
Murdoch University
University of Newcastle
Queensland University of Technology.
RMIT University
University of South Australia
Southern Cross University
University of Southern Queensland
University of the Sunshine Coast
Swinburne University of Technology
Victoria University, Australia
University of Western Australia
University of Wollongong - Both DBA and PhD Programs offered.
University of Canberra - Both DBA and PhD Programs offered.
Argentina
University of CEMA - Doctorate in Business Administration offered.
NU of M - Doctorate in Administration offered.
Torcuato di Tella University - Doctorate in Administration offered.
University of San Andrés - Doctorate in Administration offered.
Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina - Doctorate in Administration offered.
Switzerland
SBS Swiss Business School, Switzerland.
European University
Swiss Management Center
Business School Lausanne, Switzerland.
France
Dauphine (Paris Dauphine University) - EDBA and PhD offered with completion options at Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli, Italy and Georgia State University, USA.
Universite de Nice - Department of Business Administration (IAE) offers DBA.
International School of Management - DBA and PhD offered with completion options in Paris, New York, Tokyo, and Shanghai.
Grenoble Ecole de Management DBA and Joint DBA offered with the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and the Tongji University, China.
United Kingdom
Ashridge Business School Both DBA and PhD Degree offered.
Aston University Both DBA and PhD Degree offered.
University of Bath DBA in Higher Education Management.
University of Bedfordshire
Birmingham City University Both DBA and PhD Degree offered.
British Business Academy Research and Teaching International DBA offered.
University of Birmingham (Birmingham Business School) Both DBA and PhD offered.
Bournemouth University
University of Bradford School of Management
Cranfield University Both DBA and PhD Degree offered.
Durham University (Durham Business School), in UK.
University of Glamorgan (Glamorgan Business School) - Both DBA and PhD offered.
University of Gloucestershire - Both DBA and PhD Degree offered, UK and Germany.
University of Greenwich
Greenwich School of Management - Both DBA and PhD Degree offered, UK
Heriot Watt University (Edinburgh Business School)
University of Huddersfield
Kingston University (Kingston Business School)
Leeds Metropolitan University Both DBA and PhD Degree offered.
London Metropolitan University
University of Leeds Both DBM and PhD Degree offered.
University of Liverpool
Liverpool John Moores University
University of Manchester (Manchester Business School) Both DBA and PhD offered.
Manchester Metropolitan University
Newcastle University Business School - Both DBA and PhD offered
Northumbria University - Both DBA and PhD offered.
Nottingham Trent University - Both PhD and DBA offered.
University of Reading (Henley Business School) - Both DBA and PhD offered.
The Robert Gordon University (Aberdeen Business School) - DBA
University of Portsmouth - Both PhD and DBA offered.
Sheffield Hallam University
University of Strathclyde - Both PhD and DBA offered.
University of Surrey PhD and DBA offered.
Teesside University - Both PhD and DBA offered.
United States of America
Alliant International University
Anderson University (Indiana)
Argosy University
Baker College
Boston University School of Management
California University of Business and Technology
California Southern University
California InterContinental University
CIBU - California International Business University
Capella University
University of Cincinnati
Cleveland State University.
Columbia Southern University
George Fox University
Georgia State University- PhD offered
Golden Gate University
Harvard Business School - DBA and PhD offered.
Indiana University - Kelley School of Business
International Technological University (California)
Jones International University
Kennesaw State University
University of Kentucky
Lawrence Technological University
Lincoln University (California)
Louisiana Tech University
University of Phoenix
University of Management and Technology (United States)
Northcentral University
Nova Southeastern University
Pacific States University
Saint Ambrose University
Southern New Hampshire University
Walden University - DBA and PhD offered.
Webster University - DMngt offered
Wilmington University
Other World Locations
Instituto Politecnico Nacional - Doctorate in Business Administration offered
Universidad de Celaya --Doctorate in Business Administration offered.
Universidad Anahuac del Sur -- DBA
University of Wollongong in Dubai - Doctorate of Business Administration Offered, U.A.E.
Arab Academy of Science, Technology & Maritime Transport- Graduate School of Business - DBA Offered, Egypt.
Athabasca University Online Doctorate of Business Administration offered.
Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières
Université de Sherbrooke - Both DBA and PhD offered.
Copenhagen Business School
University of Gloucestershire The German Office in Munich, Germany offers the DBA.
University of Applied Sciences Deggendorf, Germany, offers the DBA in cooperation with Charles Sturt University, Australia.
Universidad Francisco Marroquin
City University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Hong Kong Baptist University
Open University of Hong Kong
University College Cork - Dept. of Economics offers DBA in Business Economics and PhD.
Hitotsubashi University
Tilburg University TiasNimbas Business School, Netherlands.
Maastricht School of Management
Multimedia University
Nyenrode Business Universiteit Nyenrode Business University, Netherlands.
International University of Monaco - Both DBA and PhD offered.
Massey University - Both DBA and PhD offered.
Aquinas University of Legazpi
Ateneo de Davao University
Colegio de San Juan de Letran
De La Salle University
Lyceum-Northwestern University
Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila
Philippine School of Business Administration
Polytechnic University of the Philippines
Saint Louis University, Baguio City
San Beda College
University of Mindanao - Both DBA and PhD offered.
University of the East
University of Northern Philippines
Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico
IE Business School (formerly known as 'Instituto de Empresa')- Both DBA and PhD offered.
Asian Institute of Technology - DBA and PhD offered. DBA offered in India, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam.
University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce - DBA Offered, Thailand.
United Business Institutes Belgium
IAM - Institut Africain de Management DBA
See also
- Business education
- Doctor of Philosophy
- PhD in Management
- Doctor of Public Administration
- Doctor of Health Administration
- Master of Business Administration
- sieps.ch Information Services on Swiss Private Schools and Universities
References
- ^ Harvard Business School FAQ on doctoral programs
- ^ Boston University School of Management doctoral programs overview
- ^ a b Greenwich School of Management doctoral programs overview
- ^ Maastricht School of Management doctoral programs overview
- ^ Structure of the U.S. Education System: Research Doctorate Degrees
- ^ a b Business Doctorate & PhD Programs Graduate School Programs - Masters & PhD Degrees
- ^ National Commission of University Accreditation
- ^ http://www.financialadvisormagazine.com/component/content/article/4-front-liine-news/13-frontline-news.html
- ^ http://www.financialadvisormagazine.com/component/content/article/4-front-liine-news/13-frontline-news.html
- ^ http://www.ggu.edu/about/faculty/faculty_directory/david_yeske